Crap Towns / South Yorkshire / Bentley
Bentley
91/100Crap Score
87th crappest of 984 towns, and 8th in South Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Letters from the locals
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agree it's crap have defended it
You're thinking of the car. Stop it.
Sounds posh. It's an old pit village outside Doncaster that keeps flooding.
Bentley. You're thinking leather seats. It's a pit village outside Doncaster where the Don comes through the front door every few years, and then everyone spends years fighting the insurers. The old pit's a wood now. The trees are doing all right.
Nobody else is. Burglary sits at four times the typical town's rate, car crime and vandalism at three, and things get set on fire at nearly nine. Serious crashes are two and a half times the typical town's. 8.5% of the food places score 0 to 2. There's 2 pubs. Not that Bentley. Never that Bentley.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Bentley's 99 for criminal damage and arson means it's crapper than 99% of towns.
- Criminal damage and arson99/10021.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions98/1006.0 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Deliberate fires98/10050.8 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Food hygiene88/1008.5% rated 0 to 2, of the 71 food businesses with a rating
- Anti-social behaviour83/10023.0 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Air pollution78/1009.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Sewage spills63/100465 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Fly-tipping31/1008.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Doncaster council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Broadband21/1004.9% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.6% across the Doncaster council area
- Rain14/100115 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Sheffield | 94 |
| 5 | Rawmarsh | 93 |
| 6 | Mexborough | 92 |
| 7 | Dinnington | 92 |
| 8 | Bentley | 91 |
| 9 | Wombwell | 91 |
| 10 | Doncaster | 88 |
| 11 | Hoyland | 88 |
| 12 | Wath upon Dearne | 85 |
Bentley by numbers
Thinking of moving here? Don't say we didn't warn you.
Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 163 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 2.1x the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of fly-tipping on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 0.8 per 10,000 people, 27% lower than the typical town's 1.1
- 1 serious pollution incident within 1 km since 2016, the latest in 2023
What's left on the high street
- 2 pubs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 4.8% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (1 of 21) Worse: 20% higher than the typical town's 4.0%
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.53pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.0% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: Against the typical town's 0.5%
- 19.5% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Worse: 26% higher than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,493 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Doncaster council
Have a crap-off
Bentley against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.
- ?Fly-tippingper 1,000, council area?
- ?Anti-social behaviourper 1,000 people?
- ?Serious road crashesper 10,000 people?
- ?Sewage spillshours per 10,000 people?
- ?Food hygienerated poor?
- ?Criminal damageper 1,000 people?
- ?Dirty airµg/m³?
- ?No gigabitof premises can't get it?
- ?Deliberate firesper 10,000 people?
- ?Raindays a year?
Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.